Christies: Valuable Books and Manuscripts, 22693, London - King Street

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Auction Report
Auction Date
December 11, 2024 - December 11, 2024
Page Size: 170 items in 7 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
151 EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955)

'Uber einen die Erzeugung und Verwandlung des Lichtes betreffenden heuristischen Gesichtspunkt'. Offprint from: Annalen der Physik, 4th Series, vol. 17.

Leipzig 1905 GBP 70,000.00 - 100,000.00 Not Sold
152 EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955)

'Eine neue Bestimmung der Molekuldimensionen'. Offprint from: Annalen der Physik, 4th Series, vol. 19.

Leipzig 1906 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 17,640.00
153 PLANCK, Max (1858-1947)

'Das Prinzip der Relativitat und die Grundgleichungen der Mechanik'. Offprint from: Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft, No. 8.

Braunschweig 1906 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Not Sold
154 EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955)

'Zur Theorie der Brownschen Bewegung.' Offprint from: Annalen der Physik, 4th series, vol. 19, no. 2, pp.371-381.

Leipzig 1906 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
155 EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955)

A group of 11 offprints, including:'Das Prinzip von der Erhaltung der Schwerpunktsbewegung und die Tragheit der Energie.' Offprint from: Annalen der Physik. 4th Series, vol. 20.

 Leipzig 1906 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Not Sold
156 EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955)

'Uber das Relativitatsprinzip und die aus demselben gezogenen Folgerungen'. Offprint from: Jahrbuch der Radioaktivitat und Elektronik. No. 4.

 Leipzig 1908 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 Not Sold
157 EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955)

'Uber den Einfluss der Schwerkraft auf die Ausbreitung des Lichtes.' Offprint from: Annalen der Physik, 4th series, vol. 35.

Leipzig 1911 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 6,930.00
158 EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955)

Zur allgemeinen Relativitatstheorie. (Mit Nachtrag.)'. Offprint from: Sitzungsberichte der Koniglich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.Gesamtsitzung vom 4. November. Sitzung der physikach-mathematischen Klasse vom 11. November. XLIV. XLVI.

 Berlin 1915 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 11,340.00
159 EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955)

'Die Feldgleichungen der Gravitation.' Offprint from: Offprint from: Sitzungsberichte der Koniglich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Sitzung der physikach-mathematischen Klasse vom 25. November. XLVIII.

Berlin 1915 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 15,120.00
160 EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955)

A group of 13 offprints, including:'Kosmologische Betrachtungen zur Allgemeinen Relativitatstheorie'. Offprint from: Sitzungsberichte der Koniglich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. VI.

Berlin 1917 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 12,600.00
161 PLANCK, Max Karl Ernst Ludwig (1858-1947)

'Zur Theorie des Rotationsspektrums.' Offprint from: Annalen der Physik. 4th Series, vol. 52.

 Leipzig 1917 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 630.00
162 EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955)

'Quantentheorie des einatomigen idealen Gases.' Offprint from: Sitzungsberichte der Preussichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Phys.-math. Klasse vol. XXII.

 Berlin 1924 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 6,930.00
163 LAWRENCE, David Herbert (1885-1930)

Lady Chatterley's Lover.

Florence 1928 GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 Not Sold
164 ERNEST HOWARD SHEPARD (BRITISH, 1879-1976)

Pooh and Piglet in a Heffalump Trap: 'He'll say Ho-Ho'

 GBP 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 Not Sold
165 ERNEST HOWARD SHEPARD (BRITISH, 1879-1976)

Christopher Robin and Piglet: 'It was the short for Tresspassers will'

 GBP 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 Not Sold
166 ERNEST HOWARD SHEPARD (BRITISH, 1879-1976)

Christopher Robin Skipping: two studies for 'Hoppity' in 'When We Were Very Young'

 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 Not Sold
167 ERNEST HOWARD SHEPARD (BRITISH, 1879-1976)

Racing the Cabs

 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
168 ERNEST HOWARD SHEPARD (BRITISH, 1879-1976)

Septimas

 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
169 PEGGY FORTNUM (BRITISH, 1919 - 2016)

With love from Paddington

 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 10,080.00
170 ROWLING, J.K. (b. 1965)

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.

London 1997 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 4,410.00
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    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: William Shakespeare.
    The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare, 1960. 7,210 USD
    Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens.
    A Christmas Carol, First Edition, 1843. 17,500 USD
    Sotheby’s: William Golding.
    Lord of the Flies, First Edition, 1954. 5,400 USD
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    Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Inscribed First Edition, 1872. 25,000 USD
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    The Hobbit, First Edition, 1937. 12,000 USD
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    Paradise Lost, 1759. 5,400 USD